Members of the All Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Technical and Non-technical Government Employees Coordination Council have threatened to protest on December 4 if the government fails to upgrade clerical staff.
Speaking at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Tuesday, the association’s president Malik Muhammad Naveed said the government has failed to account for assurances over the last six months. “The government had been using delaying tactics,” he said.
According to Naveed, the cleric staff had protested against the government’s failure to upgrade them on May 22. However, on May 27, provincial assembly member and the then parliamentary secretary Arif Yousaf pledged to take the matter into consideration and upgrade the staff.
Moreover, at a protest outside the provincial assembly, the then provincial information minister Shah Farman met the association’s leadership and pledged to meet their demands.
“The government has yet to take practical steps in this regard,” he said. “A meeting had been scheduled with the chief minister to discuss the matter but it was postponed for unknown reasons.”
A meeting was also organised with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan, said the association’s president. “Although we informed Imran about the plight of clerical staff, nothing has been done so far,” he added.
The decision to upgrade clerical staff was announced in 2007. In 2014, the PTI government made another announcement in this regard, but a notification has yet to be issued.
“We make it clear. If the government fails to upgrade the clerical staff, we will take to the streets,” Naveed said. “K-P Chief Minister Pervez Khattak will be responsible for whatever happens to us on the streets.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 26th, 2014.
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